Nationalist Faction of the Ionian Islands

The Nationalist Faction was an informal political grouping of reactionary politicians in the United States of the Ionian Islands that was active from 1815 to 1864. The faction opposed foreign influence on the islands, particularly the mercantile influence of the United Kingdom and the Austrian Empire. The faction advocated for the independence of the islands from foreign rule, and it advocated right-wing views across the board: it opposed foreign trade, supported a state-run capittalist economy, supported religious moralism, opposed immigration, and supported an aggressive foreign policy. The party dissolved after the Ionian Islands were annexed by Greece in 1864.